A fox (kettu) may be quick (nopea), but he runs quick-ly (nopea-sti). In English an adjective is often changed into an adverb by adding -ly. In Finnish the same is done by adding -sti to the end of the adjective in question. Note that vowel and consonant gradation still apply, so you'll find d's turning into t's, a's changing into e's, and so on.
fast, quick - nopea
quickly - nopeasti
hard, strong - kova
strongly - kovasti
easy - helppo
easily - helposti
The last example shows consonant gradation - on adding -sti one of the p's disappears. I never said Finnish would be easily learnt!
1 comment:
thanks for the vocab list, it's great :)
in Finnish there are many different words that mean the same thing but used differently
like "so"- niin, siis, noin and näin
what is the different between them? when must I use each of them?
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